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Andreas Fogarasi
Andreas Fogarasi studied architecture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Between 1997 and 1999 he was a collaborative organiser and student of the Freie Klasse (Free Class). He completed his studies in 2003 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Since 2001, he has been co-editor of dérive – Magazine for Urban Studies.
Andreas Fogarasi’s works investigate how cultural entities and phenomena can become an image, a brand, and thus marketable identities. In spatial interventions, objects, typographic research, and architectural analysis, he explores the roots and development of communication design, a powerful factor in today’s capitalist economy and politics, as well as the strategies related to various cultural concepts, industrial and economic expectations, and political ideologies and models of representation.
A number of Fogarasi’s works address the question of cultural identification – including the issue of branding – and the visual changes that manifest in its appearance (Public Brands – The Nine States of Austria, 2003; Westen [aka Osten], 2005). Research on typography, communication design, history of architecture and industrial design has always comprised an organic part of his projects. The complex examination of a chosen structure (in architecture/design/history of culture) and its system of symbols usually become the subject of interpretation through the design of the space and the objects of the installation.
